Martin Steven Domingo, an Afghanistan veteran was caught buying and attempting to make bombs to be deployed in places like Huntington beach and the Santa Monica Pier. He had been seen on social media posting hateful messages, and the police caught him with the help of an undercover cop and a long time confidential informant of the police,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/us/terror-attack-los-angeles.html
In U.S. history, undercover operatives have been a vital part of operations, even to the time of the american revolution when soldiers or the sons of liberty went undercover as British Soldiers to gain information and make the revolution successful. Hercules Mulligan, saved the life of George Washington by working as a tailor for the British army, learning of a plot to assassinate him. This officer who went undercover and found the potential bomber save the lives of those who could've been hit by 3 inch nails that would've been launched from the bomb.
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